Posted on 03/14/2022 6:43:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Actress Taraji P. Henson compared Jussie Smollett’s fake hate crime sentence to the lynching of Emmett Till in a celebrity-endorsed plea for early release.
Henson, who co-starred with Smollett on the Fox show “Empire,” took to Instagram in a display of hashtag activism to make her case. Rather than argue on the merits of innocence or guilt, Henson claims Smollett is facing excessive punishment.
“I am not here to debate you on his innocence,” Henson wrote, “but we can agree that the punishment does not fit the crime.”
0:10 / 50:16 1 seconds... Henson then proceeded to compare the sentence of 150 days in jail to the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. “Till was brutally beat and ultimately murdered because of a lie,” Henson said, “and none of the people involved with his demise spent one day in jail, even after Carolyn Bryant admitted that her claims were false.”
Henson went on to state that “No one was hurt or killed during Jussies’s ordeal” and that his supposed inability to obtain employment since the 2019 hoax has been punishment enough.
“He can’t get a job,” Henson wrote. “No one in Hollywood will hire him and again as an artist who loves to create, that is prison.”
The levels of irony here are astounding, starting with the race-baiting argument that Smollett, who faked a crime against himself at great expense to the city of Chicago for investigation and legal fees, is somehow akin to the failure of the justice system to convict Till’s murderers before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Henson had come to Smollett’s defense in the days following the hoax in a letter requesting his return to work on the show. Henson wrote then, with co-star Terrence Howard, “It’s clearer every day that the extreme political climate in our country has only made our system of justice and the court of public opinion more unjust.”
The only extreme in the case of Smollett has been the cries of racism from those defending him for faking a hate crime, as Henson continues to do. Till was a legitimate victim. Smollett tried to make himself a victim, arguably for publicity’s sake.
Henson has jumped to claims of racism in the past including a 2015 incident where she accused the Glendale Police Department of profiling her son Marcel Johnson.
Johnson had been pulled over the year prior and Henson said it was entirely because of his race, stating, “My child has been racially profiled,” before accusing the police of “illegally” searching his car. The dashcam video was released proving the officer was entirely civil with Johnson and actually let him off for the moving violation before citing him for marijuana possession without a prescription.
In her public apology, Henson said, “Sometimes as human WE overreact without gathering all of the facts.” She apparently has yet to learn that lesson since she has continued to react to developments in Smollett’s case without consideration of all the details. The same can be said for celebrities like Gabrielle Union and Leslie Jordan who liked Henson’s post.
Smollett has reportedly been moved to the psychiatric ward of the Cook County Jail, presumably because of his outburst upon sentencing where he repeatedly declared, “I am not suicidal.” It is also possible the move was carried out to separate the high profile inmate from the general population.
What they REALLY want is to be exempt from all laws of our country because in their minds the laws and the country in general are racist and was built on the backs of their slave ancestors....because of that they shouldn’t be held accountable for anything really.
I notice where I am a lot of black folks don’t really care about speed limits and traffic lights are apparently optional.
Don’t get me started on shoplifting, theft and pilfering.
He’ll never do 5 months....if he does 2 I’ll be shocked
“No one in Hollywood will hire him and again as an artist who loves to create, that is prison.”
There are plenty of openings for creative people in the fake hate crime business.
I thought blaming another race for something was racist. That’s what big media tells me when the races are reversed.
“Juicy Small Lay”?
Weak.
Adding insult to Emmet Till’s fatal injuries.
Doesn’t even understand the history. How disrespectful. What an idiot
How long before they compare it to the Holocaust and the jail he is in to Auschwitz? The ego and arrogance of these jackasses is off the charts. Who the hell is Jussie, the Messiah? Everybody damn well knows if two innocent white guys were charged and sentenced to jail, this POS would let them rot rather than tell the truth.
Send him to Saudi Arabia for sentencing...seems so many “people of color” embrace Islam...dive right in, enjoy the open arms of Koranistas.
Honestly, how stupid are these people? It would be one thing to support him, citing his obvious mental problems, but to blindly link him to martyrdom defies intelligence.
Of course like all leftists, she blocks anyone from commenting because she’s a freakin’ coward. Hillary pulls that crap all the time, like Rush said “Hit and run”. They spew bullcrap and run.
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“Chicongo”, love it. Mind if I steal your term?
She is wrong, as she is about everything else.
"Jussie's ordeal," hurt Whites who are portrayed by the media and black community as "hunting down blacks b/c of the color of their skin" - as the late Colin Ferguson pointed out again and again and again - with video and audio proof.
Of course this won't hurt HER career - just as her last outburst about her son being "racially profiled" didn't.
No, we can't. It's time for people who make a living stirring the racial pot to accept responsibility for their own actions, and I would add Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Smollett to the list. The race card has been played too many times when, in fact, the person's plight is of their own doing. Quit blaming Whitey for your problems and man-up to your own mistakes and shortcomings.
Not mine, but steal away.
Of course she does- nothing g says “LOOK AT ME” like false equivocation linking justice done to overt racism and violent acts.
Th3 left are simply incapable of admitting the truth. It’s like,they feel that if they were to be honest, that they woild mess their pants, so you can see them straining to bet their lies out while holding it In and hoping it was false enough to ward off the big diarrhea Lol
What Jussie’s supporters - like this idiot - and BLM - want is for blacks to be able to commit crimes with absolute impunity - up to and including murder.
They want police disbanded and defunded so no black is ever arrested again.
They are trying awful hard to get Smollett off of his jail term. They want special treatment for him!
Here’s a question that I have yet to hear anyone ask throughout this whole ordeal. What would have happened if the cops had managed to find 2 white guys who just happened to be in wrong place at the wrong time. Do you think Jussie would have pointed the finger at them or would he have said “No, those aren’t the guys”?
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